Good Philosophy. 3 1 5 



This was voted a fit companion for the first verse, 

 so the Charioteers to-day had two moral lessons. 



The student said it was also good philosophy, and 

 taught by no less an authority than Herbert Spencer 

 himself, who had exposed the folly of postponing pres- 

 ent enjoyments in the hope that they will be better 

 if enjoyed at a later date. Here are the words of the 

 sage : 



" Hence has resulted the belief that, irrespective of 

 their kinds, the pleasures of the present must be sacri- 

 ficed to the pleasures of the future. So ignorant is this 

 belief, that it is wrong to seek immediate enjoyments 

 and right to seek remote ones only, that you may hear 

 from a busy man who has been on a pleasure excur- 

 sion a kind of apology for his conduct. He depre- 

 cates the unfavorable judgments of his friends by ex- 

 plaining that the state of his health had compelled 

 him to take a holiday, nevertheless if you sound him 

 with respect to his future, you will find out his ambi- 

 tion is by and by to retire and devote himself wholly 

 to the relaxation which he is now somewhat ashamed 

 of taking. The current conception further errs by im- 

 plying that a gratification which forms a proper aim if 

 it is remote, forms an improper aim if it is proximate." 



And this from the "Data of Ethics." So that 

 the poet and the philosopher are as one. 



" Does Herbert Spencer write so clearly and simply 

 as that upon such subjects?" asked one of the young 



